A new record, "Beatin' the Heat" on the indie Surfdog label, finds this former San Francisco bar fixture still at the top of his game, and the live presentation only enhances his material and reputation as a man of blithesome wit.

He goes on to meditate further on time and decay, and the distinct absence of medieval minstrels 'who sang the blithesome roundelay' down on the esplanade, before rounding off his poem (like any good sermon) with a lament on mankind and the futility of earthly grandeur.

Vilified all down the decades by those who, in their blithesome ignorance and for their own conceits, have cast him in an evil role, the guilty male destructor, abandoner of the striving poetess and mother - latter-day sainted feminist icon - Hughes has kept silent as the Heptonstall grave.

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